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Common specific uses include:

• MAD Magazine
• Barajas International Airport ( IATA Airport Code)
• MAD programming language (the Michigan Algorithm Decoder)
• Mutual assured destruction
• Magnetic anomaly detector

Also:

• Magnetic airborne detector
• Moroccan dirham ( ISO currency code)
• MAD (Music-all-day) (Greek music channel)
• MAD-Leser ( IRC Guy )

It is also used as a truncation of madness.

A mad scientist is a scientist who works against typically held theories. The usually fictional scientists often have insane inventions that are covered up by either technobabble or the stereotypical quirkiness of scientists and engineers in their naming schemes. Real life "mad scientists" include:

• Nikola Tesla, who used the earth as a medium to transmit electrical power to any place in the world, as well as theoretical methods of mind control and death rayThe concept of a death ray is generally portrayed as some form of directed energy weapon that projects energy at a person or object in order to destroy them. Research and development A death ray weapon is under active research and development, but most exs, but never completed his research on any for fear of his inventions being used for ill.
• The Wright Brothers, who succeeded in heavier-than-air flight which was before considered impossible by most people.

Mad is also used to describe rabiesThis article is about the infectious disease. For the 1989 album by industrial band Skinny Puppy, see Rabies (album). Rabies (from a Latin word meaning rage , is a viral disease that causes acute encephalitis in animals and people. It can affect most spec in animals; typically, but not limited to, mad dog and Bovine spongiform encephalopathyBovine spongiform encephalopathy BSE or commonly mad cow disease is a fatal, neurodegenerative disease of cattle. The disease is believed to be transmissible to humans. Misshaped prion proteins cause the degeneration and spread the disease between individ or mad cow disease.